5/28/2023 0 Comments Pale rider by laura spinney![]() Once reproduction is complete, the replicated virus must leave the host, be carried in the air, and infect another, if it is to thrive.įlu’s symptoms represent the body’s immune response to the viral invasion. In human hosts the desired cells are those lining the lung. We now know that the flu virus is a parasite that needs the host cell of another living organism in order to reproduce. There were no tools available to identify the invisible agent of disease. Its victims reported dizziness, fevers, lethargy and coughing up blood for at least two out of every 100 people who caught the bug, the outcome, within weeks, was death especially vulnerable were those aged between 20 and 40. At the end of the war, among weakened soldiers and undernourished populations, flu appeared as a shocking and unheralded visitor, and spread with alarming speed. ![]() ![]() Pale Rider sets out to change this it’s both a saga of tragedies and a detective story. ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments Judy blume book freckle juice![]() ![]() It’s not that Margaret, who’s played with appropriate trepidation by Abby Ryder Fortson, isn’t often painfully relatable as she navigates the terrible terrain of adolescence, including participation in a friend group run with dictatorial certainty by local queen bee Nancy Wheeler (Elle Graham). That’s the thing about getting older - at a certain point, no matter how in touch you believe yourself to be with your inner youth, you start sympathizing with the adults in children’s movies, even though those adults are usually there to misunderstand, miss out on the action, or get in the way. ![]() But, watching the movie, I found myself focusing more on Margaret’s parents. ![]() Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is sweet but careful, and somehow the parents are the most interesting part.Īre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is an adaptation of the Judy Blume classic about 11-year-old Margaret Simon, who contends with puberty, religious exploration, and a move from Manhattan to New Jersey. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín![]() ![]() ![]() Her only option is a Sunday job in the shop of autocratic Miss Kelly, whose lashing tongue softens only for customers perceived to be of the “right” social standing. Jobs are scarce in the depressed economy of 1950s Ireland and Eilis, finishing a bookkeeping course, is struggling to find work. ![]() Eilis’s family is one marked by death and emigration her father died a few years previously and her three brothers have all left for work in Birmingham. The narrative begins in Ireland, as we are introduced to the very shy and retiring Eilis, who lives with her older sister Rose and elderly mother. Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn tells the story of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish girl who emigrates from Enniscorthy, Wexford to Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Pratchett guards guards![]() My first intro to Terry was when I worked on a Discworld cartoon series circa 1993. Narrating all eight of the new volumes is actor, comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw, alongisde Bill Nighy who returns to read Pratchett's famous footnotes and Peter Serafinowicz, who voices Death.Īhead of the series release on the 25th May, we spoke to Culshaw about his experience recording the books, the novel he recommends you read first, and the night he watched the lunar eclipse with the author himself.ĭo you remember your first introduction to Terry Pratchett's novels? ![]() With a stellar cast of readers, the Witches, Wizards, and Death series were brought to life, and now it's the turn of Ankh-Morpork's finest police force – the City Watch – a series that follows their adventures (and misadventures) as they fight for survival in the hours of darkness. Last year, Penguin Audio launched its biggest project to date: recording new and unabridged audiobooks of all 40 titles in Sir Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld novels. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The song of achilles book buy![]() ![]() ![]() 'Sexy, dangerous, mystical' - Bettany Hughes ![]() an incredibly compelling and seductive read' - Independent on Sunday 'Original, clever, and in a class of its own. 'Mary Renault lives again! A ravishingly vivid and convincing version of one of the most legendary of love stories' - Emma Donoghue 'A remarkably fresh take on one of the most familiar narratives in western literature' - The Times Beautifully descriptive and heart-achingly lyrical, this is a love story as sensitive and intuitive as any you will find' - Daily Mail 'This is a deeply affecting version of the Achilles story: a fully threedimensional man - a son, a father, husband and lover - now exists where a superhero previously stood and fought' - ObserverĮxtraordinary. 'A captivating retelling of the Iliad and events leading up to it through the point of view of Patroclus: it's a hard book to put down, and any classicist will be enthralled by her characterisation of the goddess Thetis, which carries the true savagery and chill of antiquity' - Donna Tartt ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments In the book farewell to manzanar![]() ![]() John Okada’s novel No-No Boy, written in 1956, is widely considered the first Japanese-American classic and is one of the first works to address conflicted Japanese-American sentiment during World War II. While wartime internment of Japanese-Americans was considered a taboo topic in the years after it occurred, fiction and non-fiction explorations of the catastrophe have emerged in recent decades. government, and in 1988, when President Ronald Regan signed a bill ordering reparations for each surviving internee. ![]() In the 1960s, a younger generation of Japanese-Americans began a campaign for public acknowledgement of the internment process they achieved success in 1976, when President Gerald Ford publicly apologized for internment on behalf of the U.S. Most interned families suffered serious economic and material losses as they had to sell possessions and land at a loss, and what they left behind was often stolen. Most prominent newspapers and many Caucasian trade unions who saw the Japanese as competition supported internment and stoked fears of Japanese espionage. About 120,000 Japanese-Americans were affected, most of whom were American citizens. ![]() Shortly after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed the military to “exclude” Japanese-Americans from the West Coat and confine them in government-operated concentration camps. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention ... by Ralph Louis Ketcham![]() Traditional political activity created popular support for the constitutional order, which in turn strengthened the stranglehold slavery had on America. ![]() The Garrisonians were convinced that the legal protection of slavery in the Constitution made political activity not only futile, but actually counterproductive. ![]() But their position was also at least theoretically pragmatic. Part of their opposition to continuing the Union stemmed from their desire to avoid the corruption that came from participating in a government created by the proslavery Constitution. The American states were, in Garrison’s words, united by a “covenant with death” and “an agreement with Hell.” Garrison and his followers refused to participate in American electoral politics, because to do so they would have had to support “the pro-slavery, war sanctioning Constitution of the United States.” Instead, under the slogan “No Union with Slaveholders,” the Garrisonians repeatedly argued for a dissolution of the Union. ![]() William Lloyd Garrison, the great nineteenth-century abolitionist, thought the Constitution was the result of a terrible bargain between freedom and slavery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in San Diego, California.Īll three books in The Book Of Words Trilogy are #1 national bestsellers, and have been bought for publication in England, Poland, Russia, Germany, France and Holland. She has been writing for years, and is currently working The End Lords. enjoys cooking, gardening, reading, playing RPG's, watching old black-and-white movies, and pottering around the house! Julie Victoria Jones was born in Liverpool, England. Her fifth book, A Cavern of Black Ice, is the first in a new series. All three books in The Book Of Words Trilogy are #1 national bestsellers, and have been bought for publication in England, Poland, Russia, Germany, France and Holland. Julie Victoria Jones was born in Liverpool, England. ![]() ![]() ![]() "There’s power enough in Heaven," he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, "to cure a sin-sick soul." And then he gets up. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. ![]() Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. While Gamache doesn’t talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole." On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he’d only imagined possible. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens![]() Tal must escape if he hopes to save his family and the kingdom. But before they can pursue anything further, Tal is kidnapped by pirates and held ransom in a plot to reveal his rumored powers and instigate a war. That is, until Tal runs into Athlen days later on dry land, very much alive, and as charming-and secretive-as ever. ![]() So when Athlen leaps overboard and disappears, Tal feels responsible and heartbroken, knowing Athlen could not have survived in the open ocean. ![]() Tasked with watching over the prisoner, Tal is surprised to feel an intense connection with the roguish Athlen. His first taste of adventure comes just two days into the journey, when their crew discovers a mysterious prisoner on a burning derelict vessel. After spending most of his life cloistered behind palace walls as he learns to keep his forbidden magic secret, he can finally see his family’s kingdom for the first time. Prince Tal has long awaited his coming-of-age tour. But its not long before Athlen turns up on dry land, very much alive, and as charming and secretive as ever. ![]() So when Athlen leaps overboard and disappears, Tal is heartbroken. ![]() “A frothy confection of sea-foam, young love, and derring-do.” -NPR From the New York Times bestselling author of So This Is Ever After, a young prince must rely on a mysterious stranger to save him when he is kidnapped during his coming-of-age tour in this swoony adventure that is The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Pirates of the Caribbean. When his ships crew discovers a mysterious prisoner on a derelict vessel, Tal feels an intense connection with the roguish Athlen. ![]() |